Raptors split to end Florida trip

Press release

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (March 23 2013) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team finished its trip to the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational with a doubleheader split against Western Connecticut State University here Saturday, closing their spring break with a 6-4 mark in 10 games down south.

The Scarlet Raptors edged the Colonels, 8-7, in the opener and the Danbury, Connecticut-based school turned the tables in the nightcap with its own one-run victory, 5-4.

Rutgers-Camden returns home with an 11-7 record, while the split leaves Western Connecticut State with a 3-3 mark.

Rutgers-Camden returns to action Tuesday with a 3:30 p.m. game at FDU-Florham. The Scarlet Raptors open up their New Jersey Athletic Conference play on March 30, hosting Kean University in an 11 a.m. doubleheader. Kean currently is ranked No. 8 in the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll and No. 9 in the ABCA/Collegiate Baseball Division III national poll.